Who We Are
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What IS Kaleidoscope Grief Center?
What does Kaleidoscope Grief Center do?
We promote the process of healing through
serving critically ill and grieving children, teens and their
families. We provide education, therapeutic and recreational services,
grief support programs and traditional counseling.
How do you “serve” these families?
With our Kaleidoscope of
Caring Services:
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Twice monthly Peer Support
Bereavement Groups for ages 5-adult.
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Arkansas’ only grief camp, Camp
Healing Hearts, for the entire family.
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Individual and/or family grief
and bereavement counseling with licensed clinicians.
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Kaleidoscope Kids Club social
events for children 5-18.
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Supportive Care for the
critically ill child aged birth -18 provides compassionate
emotional support for the family.
What’s so important about grief work?
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So many children (1.2 million nationally)
will lose a parent by age 15 and many more will lose siblings, other
relatives, caregivers, and close friends. These profound losses affect
daily lives, academic and social functioning, and growth toward
adulthood.
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Children who have experienced these
profound losses are more often depressed, angry, distracted in school,
and feel alienated from peers. They display more academic and behavior
problems.
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Research shows that the death of a parent
may be THE most traumatic single event to affect the well-being and
health of a developing child and adult depression, schizophrenia, drug
problems and alcohol use may be linked to childhood bereavement.
What makes Kaleidoscope Grief Center
different?
How are you funded?
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As a nonprofit, we rely on private and
corporate community support, donations, and contributions.
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Fundraisers: Annual Healing Hearts Auction.
Have-A-Heart Sunday.
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Kaleidoscope Resale Shop. All purchases
benefit Kaleidoscope and our programs.
What can I do to help?
Donate your TIME:
Volunteering:
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Peer Support Bereavement Group
Facilitators and/or Helpers
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Camp Healing Hearts Facilitators
and/or Helpers
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General office / clerical
assistance
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Help with Fundraisers
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Publicity / Marketing
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Kaleidoscope Kids Club chaperones
and/or helpers
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Board Membership
Make a Tax-Deductible
Contribution or Donation:
Monetary:
Peer Support
Bereavement Group, $69 per person/month
Peer Support
Bereavement Group, $207 per family/month
Camp Healing Hearts,
$71 per person
Other:
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Items for our Auction
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Gently used or new items for
Kaleidoscope Resale Boutique
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Supplies for Programs and/ or
Events
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Office Supplies
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Shopping at Kaleidoscope Resale
Boutique
What are
Peer Support Bereavement Groups?
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Held twice monthly in our offices, these
concurrent sessions for children and adults help families realize that
their reactions and feelings of grief are normal and are actually an
expression of healing.
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Although facilitated by clinical staff
and trained volunteers, these groups are not clinical therapeutic
sessions, but true peer support and mutual aid where kids are helping
kids and parents are helping parents.
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Activities vary by age range but include
writing a goodbye letter to the deceased and placing it in a helium
balloon and releasing it… thereby literally and figuratively “letting
go”.
How does that help?
Peer Support Bereavement
Groups help children and families:
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Explore and cope with their
feelings around death
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Realize that grief is a process,
not an event
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Express conflicted emotions
surrounding death in an atmosphere of compassion and support
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Feel understood and gain a sense
of normalcy
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Understand that they are not to
blame for the death
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Not suffer alone
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Rejoin a community of peers
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Regain a sense of control over
their lives
What is
Camp Healing Hearts?
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Arkansas’ first and only grief camp for
children and their families. We offer therapeutic and recreational
activities designed to help families reflect on their experiences,
reconnect with each other, and rediscover hope for the future.
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Developed and facilitated by a growing
community coalition of experts in the grief field.
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Incorporates Peer Support Bereavement
Groups
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Recreational activities include Ropes
Courses, Fishing, Arts & Crafts
For 2008 it will be held May
16-May17 at the newly renovated Camp Aldersgate.